There are basically five forms of (purported) altruisms: 1) Improving welfare of people who already exist or who will exist independently of our choices, without substantial change of the lifespan of people; (meliorism) 2) Extending lifespan of people; (anti-mortalism) 3)

Why it is always better to cease to exist Jiwoon Hwang jiwoonhwang@gmail.com Epigraph “Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.” – Heinrich Heine “Death solves all problems

A case for the abolition of voting age 0. Abstract There have been increasing acceptance of the view that sixteen and seventeen years olds should be allowed to vote. I am going to defend a much radical view that the

(domesticated) Animal Years (AY) per year, or simply (domesticated) animal population is a metric to estimate the amount of suffering caused by humans due to use of animals. It is notable that about 97% of animal years caused by humans

A shock collar is a device that is used on non-human animals, which delivers electric shocks on the animal, for animal containment, bark control or training. While I oppose the usage of shock collars on non-human animals, I think that

Reducing transport cost seems to be very important for the economy, to facilitate business, migration, tourism, etc.. For example, international tourism is a significant industry of many poor countries. (http://step.unwto.org/content/tourism-and-poverty-alleviation-1) Although increasing passenger density may make flights less safe, by